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To: jjotto

She was set up to bomb, thereby getting rid of her. Use your weakest people when you know failure is inevitable. Win win for top management


21 posted on 07/14/2013 6:52:37 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: hoosiermama

I think you are on to something.

The NAACP had been previously critical of Corey for her “willingness to charge minors as adults, many of them black teenage males.”

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http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/082308/met_322003587.shtml

ANGELA COREY

A quarter of her jury trial murder convictions reversed on appeal.

Corey said her number of reversals is a product of the number of murder cases she’s tried - 47 since 1990 compared with Plotkin’s 17.

In two cases, the appellate courts specifically cited her conduct at trial. In one, the court criticized her hitting a table with a hammer during closing arguments, which Corey said she did to demonstrate the force it would have taken to commit the murder. In another, the court said she improperly criticized a defendant, who changed her story and accused her teenage son of shooting her husband. Corey said her words may have been “inartful,” but she stands by a prosecutor’s right to attack the credibility of a defendant “who commits perjury on the stand.”

But she said reasons for reversals sometimes don’t have anything to do with the prosecutor. She cited a case she tried in 2000 when the appeals court reversed a murder conviction on grounds that the trial judge should have allowed the defendant to represent himself. Other reasons in her cases include improper jury instructions or legal changes to trial procedures.

Her relationship with police.

Plotkin has questioned whether Corey fairly can evaluate police misconduct or be independent from the police unions that have endorsed her. But Corey said a partnership of trust and confidence between police and prosecutors, which doesn’t exist now, is crucial for public safety in the 4th Circuit.

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Why she was fired by Shorstein.

Corey believes her firing in 2006 clearly was political after she told Plotkin she was planning to run for state attorney. Before then, she said she received good evaluations, awards and letters of commendation from Shorstein and his predecessor, Ed Austin.

“Only when I announced face-to-face, looking straight into Jay Plotkin’s eyes, did things change, and in fact they became very ugly,” she said.

As for the allegation from Shorstein and Plotkin that she was “insubordinate,” she said it is disingenuous and 2-year-old news. She makes no apologies for standing up to Shorstein “on the occasions I felt like he was wrong.” She said she did that to improve the office, not for political gain.

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27 posted on 07/14/2013 7:09:09 PM PDT by maggief
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